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You all voted for 417 albums in total, but the majority of these recieved just the one vote. I was toying with the idea of putting up a top 100, but in the 50-100 part, there are far too many albums sharing equal points. The Top 50 that I've compiled, is much more cohesive I think, with only a few albums sharing equal points.

I decided at the last minute to award an extra point to each #1 album. So 20 for 1st, 18 for 2nd...10 for 10th. Seemed a more considered system.

Sorry Scott! Not surprised by the top 3 at all. Surprised Cryptograms is in there and Microcastle isn't but that's a better list than a lot of places. Although the omission of any hip hop/rap albums is slightly disconcerting.

I'll post a select number of non Indie albums, and the points they recieved. Should be able to work out roughly where they each fit in from that. Of the albums above, I think only Eminem didn't get any votes.

No, really, top stuff, cheers for making the effort... it's nice to see a top 50 where I actually own/have heard of a majority, now if you'll excuse me I'm off to dance around like a loon at the fact that two.. TWO.. Idlewild albums made the top fifty (one)... Brilliant!

As do most people on here. But the request wasn't for an eclectic top 10 of the last 10 years, but a top 10 of personal favourite albums. Of those polled, this list obviously reflects that. It was always going to be populist to an extent.

Of course 'crazy left field album name here' isn't going to top a list that is the combined work of lots of users -DUH! Of course it is safe and predictable - it couldn't have been anything else. Stop bitching, what did you expect?

I get it, its a 'popular' list. All I was saying is that its a shame how unoriginal the lot can be. I see so much more interesting discussion on the boards and forget that the majority are out there with Radiohead and Bloc Party on repeat.

the idea of a consensus behind Funeral being that strong is depressing and not that predictable to be honest (from my perspective). The disparity between the top number of votes and the fourth and fifth most is pretty big too, if there weren't these few "clasic" albums I think the list might be a little more skewed towards quality rather than status. Who am I to judge, though?

Very cool, indeed. I reckon the results are decent even if they aren't mind-blowingly original. It beats NME's top 50 in my opinion, and it offers a more British perspective compared with Pitchfork's list.
If anything it shows you albums that were better received by the public than they were by the critics, which in itself is rather interesting.

1/ Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
2/ The Wrens - The Meadowlands
3/ The Postal Service - Give Up
4/ Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
5/ The Mars Volta - Deloused In The Comatorium
6/ British Sea Power - The Decline of British Sea Power

So, in terms of basic numbers y'all thought 2002, 2006 & 2007 were the strongest and that 2004 and 2009 both had little going for them; in 09's case we can put this partly down to the need for some records to grow in stature over time but 2004 looks very lacking (Funeral was a '05 release outside of North America, else it would've of course topped that year; as it would any). Of course, in this we can't tell that 2005 had four records out of its six in the top 10 overall but it's nice to get a different perspective.

Some records that have proved very popular in aggregate EOD lists but failed to show up in our top 51 include: The College Dropout, Original Pirate Material, Whatever People Say..., both Elephant and White Blood Cells, Stankonia, The Marshall Mathers LP, Songs For The Deaf, Boy In Da Corner, XTRMNTR, Vampire Weekend, The Blueprint, Fleet Foxes and Chutes Too Narrow. So, yeah, a lot of hip-hop or variants thereof in that.

Funeral on the other hand, got an incredible 39 votes. I was very surprised that it came out on top, as I had thought that they were somehow less relevant than they were about 4 years ago. Although I like the album, I haven't listened to it in ages. I find their shtick a little too pompous for my liking.

When I was doing the count, I was willing either Radiohead or Interpol to overtake it.

and I'm usually the type of person who criticises the end-of-year lists that this site does. I honestly didn't expect it to be so good. I've got loads of these albums, most of them are excellent.

Nice to see GY!BE and of Montreal so high up, I'm also pleased with the 3 Sigur Ros albums being there. Then there's Arcade Fire, Interpol, At The Drive-In, The Mars Volta, Tool, Radiohead (mainly for Kid A), TVOTR, Liars, Why?, Trail of Dead etc.

Thanks for the effort Midnight_Rambler.

No 65dos though, what's with that? Probably too much division between the albums for any of them to get enough votes.